Oh I think there were plenty of Chinese people helping each other during this flood as evidenced . I tend to give any and all country emergency services a reasonable pass when it comes to emergency situations......especially flash floods and earthquakes, tornadoes, fires and the like. Most are doing everything they can and are trained to do but it will never be a perfect plan nor will everybody rescued be grateful.
I’m not talking about emergency services. I’m talking about the initiative some Americans show vs. the learned helplessness, AKA “trust-the-government” attitude the Chinese state likes to instill innits subjects.
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Oh I think there were plenty of Chinese people helping each other
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In China, the people have been trained (since the Mao’s Great Leap Forward and Tienanmen Square) not to aid strangers - no matter the crime, injury, or disaster, lest they be scammed (number two money-maker in China) or sued for all of their money and the family’s money. They just look and walk, drive on.
There are video examples of women being abducted in a crowded park in broad daylight, of children taken while people looked on and did nothing, of children being lost and asking passersby for directions or help getting home, only to be ignored or told to go away.
No one does anything in China without Party approval - the CCP makes the decisions; independent non-Party actions are not only frowned on, but may entail a visit from the Civil Police and the Guoanbu - definitely rates a brutal beating, prison time, or worse.
The early reports said the tunnel was completely flooded during rush hour - bumper to bumper both directions. That would mean hundreds of people drowned in that on instance - which is why the PLA closed off the area, in order to hide the magnitude of deaths and save the Party’s face.
People in a commie system aren't allowed to think freely and must seek approval for everything they do. Punishment for going against the system is severe so they end up afraid to think or act independently.